Seguimos siendo culpables

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

Aquesta és la biografia de l’home que va aterrir la cristiandat hispànica cap a l’any mil: Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, conegut com Almansor. El llibre tracta d’explicar com es va convertir en el veritable amo d’un califat omeia l’autoritat del qual s’estenia per al-Andalus i el Magrib occidental, per què va sembrar el terror entre els cristians i per quins motius va desaparèixer tan bruscament la dinastia que havia fundat. Per fer-ho, reviu les expedicions empreses en nom de la guerra santa i els problemes que van afectar Còrdova a l'inici del segle XI. Lluny de ser una simple...

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La Segunda Guerra Mundial concluyó con la derrota de la Alemania nazi en mayo de 1945. Con su visión obstinada y fanática de la realidad, y dejando tras de sí un rastro de millones de muertos, Hitler condujo a su país al abismo. Algunas de las decisiones personales del dictador germano, como la ofensiva aérea contra Gran Bretaña, la invasión de la Unión Soviética, la renuncia a invadir Malta o la arriesgada apuesta del ataque sobre Kursk, se demostraron como graves equivocaciones, pero ¿qué habría ocurrido si un Hitler más lúcido hubiera tomado otras decisiones a lo largo del...